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My right shoulder has been aching for a couple of weeks now. I strained it in my sleep (I think) and a couple of days later got a massage at Athens Nails in Astoria. MISTAKE. It felt good at the time but it's been hurting ever since. I'm hoping it'll heal on its own, since I'm not sure what to do to help it.

Rehearsals for A Christmas Carol have been going very well, but not that easily. We have a very strong cast this year--not one weak link--and that's both good and bad for rehearsals. The bad is that good actors tend to have mad conflicts--the good is that they pick up the blocking much more quickly. I'm rethinking some of the set pieces (especially Scrooge's bedroom platform) and changing a good amount of the blocking. The "London Streets at Christmas" scene (that is, when the Ghost of Christmas Present and Scrooge first venture out together) is gonna look and sound great, just great. I'm very excited about it. The final Ghost of the Future scene looks awesomely thpooky as well.

I was telling Ashley, I don't know why any hack would want to direct A Christmas Carol--it is NOT easy at all. You get very few "book scenes"--there's Fred and Marley, and the Cratchits at dinner, and Belle's scene, but most of the show, in almost any adaptation, is short little scenelets here and there and they have to MOVE. You have to have a nimble, versatile set. Maybe that's why I've seen and been in so many bad versions. As silly as the demon dancers were when Ryan and I did it in Virginia, that solved the problem of the constant set changes.

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I've had tons of shoulder issues, what hurts and where?

It's my right shoulder/neck, where the neck meets the shoulder. HURTS. I can only turn my head to the right about 90 degrees. Leaning my head back also hurts. Obviously I shouldn't have let the nail person massage it--it's been like this for over two weeks.

ah, sounds like they might have pinched a nerve. I suggest a heat pad and rotating heat and ice while resting (If you have a pad that does both, that works, though two is easier as the ice can sit in the freezer while you heat with another). Plus no sudden twisting of the neck as that will just hurt like hell. It should eventually relax and let go, they probably aggravated it and that's why it hasn't gone back to normal.

Thanks, I'll definitely try that.

I can only turn my head to the right about 90 degrees.

What the deuce? Are you normally Linda Blair?

Well...yeah. I thought you knew that.

But the WASP Linda Blair: Your mother orally gratifies gentlemen in Hades.

Indeed!

Saw Wayne last night and he asked after you. I told him how busy you were.

Wayne Henry?

The very one. He's sad that he doesn't get to see you as often, now that he's no longer at Lazard.